Harnessing Instability

After Ves and Gloriana put the children to bed, they retired to their own bedroom.

The cats had gone off to cuddle with the slumbering children, thereby leaving the parents with relative privacy.

Their vigilant bodyguards still kept watch over their principal. They did a good job of making themselves appear unobtrusive despite wearing formidable suits of combat armor.

In fact, the soldier cultivators dispatched by the Red Collective had increased their alertness.

They had multiple reasons to believe that the native aliens were about to launch several major operations in the near future.

Striking out at the inventor of Carmine mechs, kinship networks and many other dramatic innovations was a sound strategic choice!

Fortunately, the New Constantinople System was not directly located in a region of imminent danger, but that could change at any time depending on how the Red War unfolded.